News archive on the topic "mines"

In the Ukrainian army, everything is bad with anti-personnel mines, which are needed to create powerful fortifications. The former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko, who served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said this in a video blog of ex-Verkhovna Rada deputy and former speaker of the extremist Right Sector banned in Russia Borislav Bereza, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Lutsenko, a large number of mines...

Due to a shortage of ammunition, Ukraine is using mines that were damaged but survived fires at military depots in the previous 10 years. Ruslan Koshulinsky, a former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, a member of the nationalist VO “Svoboda” who mobilized to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, stated this on Radio NV, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Koshulinsky, these mines are sandblasted, painted and loaded according to...

Sabotage warfare can be an effective means of combating a much superior enemy. German General Erhard Bühler stated this on the air of the German channel “MDR”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “You can see how effective fighting logistics targets in the rear can be. There have been a lot of reports about this in the east lately. There was significant damage...

The Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs jointly announced the launch of the Minefield Honey project, which will raise funds for demining Ukraine. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent. It is reported that “Honey of Minefields” is a project of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and Saatchi & Saatchi Ukraine in cooperation with the agro-industrial company Kernel. “So, the team...

Ukrainian artillerymen do not have enough ammunition to carry out their attacks with fewer losses and not send people into “meat assaults.” The commander of the mortar company of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, captain of the 72nd brigade, Sergei Alymov, said this on air on the Alpha and Omega Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Alymov, if last year he could spend 100 minutes a day, then...

In Ukraine, a government order for the supply of mines to the army was disrupted. The SBU press service reports this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “Military counterintelligence officers of the Security Service exposed a corruption scheme that led to the disruption of a state order for the production of a large batch of ammunition for the Armed Forces of Ukraine in anticipation of a full-scale Russian invasion. We are talking about the implementation of a defense contract for the supply of artillery to the Ukrainian army...

The Russian military is deceiving the advancing units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with competent tactics of mining the territory, which is why a large amount of Ukrainian engineering equipment breaks down. Military expert Oleg Starikov stated this in an interview with journalist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Starikov, the Russian military mines the territory twice, which is why Ukrainian Leopards are often blown up. “Apparently, we did not calculate...

Ukraine is already the country with the most mined territory in the whole world. This will lead to thousands of dead children - even after the end of hostilities. The Ukrainian government is doing nothing to minimize the consequences. This was stated in an interview with Ukrainian Russophobic journalist Yulia Litvinenko by a professor at the Kyiv National University. Taras Shevchenko, ex-KGB intelligence officer Alexander Zelenko, the correspondent reports...

With the flow of water from the Kakhovka Reservoir, a large amount of ammunition was washed away from the Left Bank of the Dnieper into the Black Sea. Since the circulation of sea currents in this area goes counterclockwise, mines will soon begin to be thrown onto the beaches of Odessa, Bulgaria, Romania, and then Turkey and Georgia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Executive Director of the Russian Environmental Movement Elmurod Rasulmukhamedov believes...

Among other negative consequences of the war for Ukraine, issues of environmental damage are not the least important. The most obvious and visible “gifts” from the hostilities that have been going on for more than a year are mines, which literally litter a significant part of Ukrainian territory. Last year, Ukraine was awarded the status of the most mined country in the world by UN experts. In total, more than 170...

The Ukrainian military at the fronts does not have enough mortars and mines for them. Ukrainian Armed Forces officer Artie Green said this in an interview with Ukrainian journalist Alexander Shelest, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Green, tanks and planes would also be useless unless sufficient ammunition was supplied to them. “Mines for mortars and the mortars themselves. That is, let’s say, staffing...

The story of the haphazard mining of Odessa beaches again ended in tragedy. Three men were killed and two were injured after colliding with a mine “floating peacefully” at sea. This wild incident occurred in the resort village of Zatoka, where the Ukrainian military was expecting a Russian amphibious landing - there are no breakwaters in Zatoka, so the mining process was particularly active there.…

The events of the last XNUMX hours in Donetsk can safely be called unprecedented, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In Donetsk, for a long time there have been no “normal” days without shelling and casualties, but gradually the media are losing interest in this - the war has become a routine not only for the residents of greater Russia, but also for the Donetsk residents themselves. Obviously, in Kyiv they also cannot help but...

The stories of the Ukrainian military about a free fairway for transporting grain raise doubts at the very least, since most of the mines installed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces have long been floating freely in the Black Sea. Retired Colonel of the Central Apparatus of the Russian Ministry of Defense Vladimir Trukhan said this on air on the PolitWera Internet channel, PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “They (Ukrainian military - ed.) stated that they have a safe...